Anza Elementary

Anza Elementary is an elementary campus of mid-tier scale in Torrance, California, run under Torrance Unified, enrolling 613 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Across the 31 schools in Torrance Unified (21,890 students total), Anza Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Anza Elementary logs that 39% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 28% White, 18% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Anza Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.7%, the actual is 75.5%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Anza Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Jefferson Middle, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Anza Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 68.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Anza Elementary has fell 5%, going from 644 students in 2018 to 613 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

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